orange

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. tangerine, tangelo; sweet, blood, mandarin, navel, etc. orange. See vegetable, color.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. reddish, ocherous, glowing; see orange , n. 1 .

n.

1. [Color]

Syn. red-yellow, apricot, tangerine, burnt orange, peach, coral, salmon; see also red , yellow .

2. [Fruit]

Syn. citrus fruit, tropical fruit, sour orange; see food , fruit 1 .

Classes and varieties of oranges include: navel, Valencia, Temple, blood, wild, China, bitter, Seville, bergamot, mandarin, tangerine, clementine, tangelo, Ugli, Bahia, St. Michael's, egg, Bittencourt, Dom Louise, Maltese, Excelsior, Osage, Brown's white, silver, Plata, Jaffa, king, Satsuma, Florida, California.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

reddish-yellow, flaming, salmon, fox, tangerine, peach, pumpkin, tarnished sunset, ocher, tiger, apricot, burnt orange, burnt sienna, mandarin, marigold, yellow carmine, Titian, old gold, carrot.